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Godfrey F OWEN FARNDON DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR Remembering the Men of Farndon Lieutenant Godfrey OWEN Resident of Ladysmith, South Africa South African Mounted Rifles (attached to the Royal Irish Regiment) Died 30 Oct 1918 Aged 36 (Recorded on the Farndon War Memorial) and his brothers, Lieutenant Robert Arthur OWEN Imperial Yeomanry Served in the Boer War 1900-1902 Burma 1902-1905 Died of Fever, Kalewa, Upper Burma, 5 August 1905 Aged 26 Captain Oliver OWEN 9th Battalion Argyll Sutherlands Prisoner of War 1915-1918 Survived (died 1961) Land Agent, Bedale, Yorkshire Lieutenant Christopher OWEN Royal Welch Fusiliers Formerly 2008 Lance Corporal Ceylon Rifles Severely wounded, survived. Tea planter in Sri Lanka Godfrey Owen was born in Farndon on 30 November 1885, the second son of Lewis Edward and Alice (nee Carrow) Owen. Lewis Owen came from a strong Anglican family in Devon, where his father Lewis Welch Owen was Canon of Wonstan Rectory, Hampshire. His brothers were also clergymen, Donald of St Marks, Colchester and older brother George, rector for many years at St Mary’s in Tiverton in Devon. Born in 1843 , in Colchester in Essex, Lewis Edward Owen was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and his first curacy was at Chilton Foliat, Berkshire from 1867-71, before moving to East Woodhay, Hampshire for the next seven years. He was thirty-five when he preached for the first time in Farndon Church on Friday evening 12 April 1878, but he was not inducted until 17 April. During the three decades he spent in Farndon he was also tutor for a time to the children of the Duke of Westminster at nearby Eaton Hall. His wife was Alice Carrow, from Pembrokeshire in South West Wales, thirteen years his junior, and their first child, Robert Arthur Owen, was born the following year and baptised in St. Chad’s Farndon on 13 April 1879. By 1891, Robert had been packed off to boarding school in London with his younger brother Godfrey Felix, who had been born in 1882. They attended the Stratheden School in St. John’s Park, Greenwich, where the Headmaster was their uncle, John Carrow, younger brother of their mother. The ages of the pupils ranged from eight to fourteen, and Godfrey was the youngest. Meanwhile, at home, two more brothers were born, Christopher in 1887 and Oliver Aldridge in 1890, plus a daughter, Una May, in 1893. When the boys were of age they Reverend Lewis Edward Owen were also despatched to Stratheden, although ‘Uncle John’ had 1843-1909 retired by 1901 while they were still there. Rector of St. Chads, Farndon 1879-1909 In April 1899, tragedy hit the family when the Owen’s only daughter, Una, died. The local press reported on their bereavement, FARNDON NEWS - THE RECTOR'S SAD LOSS Very extensive sympathy has been shewn to the Rector and Mrs. Owen on the loss of their only daughter. The little girl was buried on the 1st May, under the shadow of the old church she loved to worship. Her coffin, which was entirely white, was carried by the churchwardens and sidesmen, preceded by six little girls dressed in white and carrying flowers, and followed by a large company of mourners. The path leading from the front gate to the porch was lined with school children, and the church was full of sympathising friends. The Rev. Wilfred Sparling, vicar of Upton, assisted by the Rev. Arthur Sloman, of Kingslee, performed the service. The 39th Psalm was sung by the choir, also hymn 265, ‘Thy way, not mine, O Lord,' and before the blessing at the graveside, the school children sang most sweetly the hymn for the burial of a child, 402, ‘Tender Shepherd Thou hast stilled now Thy little lamb's brief weeping.' The wreaths and bunches of flowers were most numerous, from the magnificent hothouse wreath down to the humble bouquet of primroses. Chester Courant, 3 May 1899 Brief ancestry tree of the Owen family Census 1851 The family of Lewis Welsh Owen, Colchester Census 1881 The Vicarage, Farndon Census 1891 The Rectory, Farndon Census 1901 The Rectory, Farndon Church Lane / St, Chad ’s, Farndon 1905 Farndon c.1895 (The Vicarage - bottom right, now demolished, replaced by modern housing) Modern map of Farndon and surrounding area Stratheden House School St John’s Park Road , Blackheath, Greenwich 1891 Census - Stratheden House School Robert Arthur Owen aged 12 and his younger brother Godfrey Felix Owen aged 8. On 11 October 1899, Great Britain was again at war with South Africa in the Second Boer War. At least five Farndon men enlisted, plus Thomas Gerrard of Clutton; Gilbert and Robert Parry (two sons of the churchwarden); R. Thelwell, son of Doctor Thelwell; and Robert Arthur Owen, son of the Rector, now aged twenty. SEND OFF AT FARNDON Farndon, small village though it be, is contributing five men to the Imperial Yeomanry Force. They include two sons of Mr. Gilbert Parry, and one each of Dr. Thelwell, and the vicar (the Rev. L. E. Owen). They left for Chester yesterday (Friday), and had an enthusiastic send-off. All the villagers turned out and cheered them, and a brass band accompanied them a considerable distance playing suitable airs. Cheshire Observer, 1 February 1900 Robert Arthur Owen They sailed for South Africa from Liverpool on the s.s.Lake Erie on 31 January 1900 - in fact, for this Elder Dempster vessel, the passage to Capetown as a troopship was her maiden voyage and she continued in this role until the end of the war. In April of the same year, Rowland Ince from the village also left for the same destination. George Edge also enlisted. Robert Owen was posted as a Trooper in The Imperial Yeomanry, which was a British volunteer cavalry regiment that mainly saw action during this war (as it was disbanded in 1908 before the First World War). Officially created on 24 December 1899, the regiment was based on members of standing Yeomanry regiments, but also contained a large contingent of middle or upper class English volunteers. In Ireland, 120 men were recruited in February 1900. The Royal Warrant asked standing Yeomanry regiments to provide service companies of approximately 115 men each. Although there were strict requirements, many volunteers were accepted with substandard horsemanship or marksmanship; however, they had significant time to train while awaiting transport. Robert wrote home in April to the local squire, Harry Barnston, which he forwarded to the local press in Chester, MORE NEWS FROM THE YEOMANRY Mr. Harry Barnston, of Crewe Hill, Farndon, has received an interesting letter from an officer of the Cheshire Yeomanry, dated Upington Gordonia, British Bechuanaland, April 20th. In the course of his communication the writer says “Poor Robert Owen! We were all - men and officers - intensely sorry to part with him at Karee Kloof; he had been ill, and was not fit to march, so Lord Arthur (Grosvenor/Westminster) left him in charge of ten men who were garrisoning the place. Beaumont, his section officer, said he could least afford to part with him of the whole of his section, and everybody said he was a good fellow."..... The two Parrys and Thelwell, are among the few who are as sound now as when they left England, for nearly all have been down with some disease or other, and they are getting on splendidly. How I wish you were here to see what absolute brutes our Cape Colony subject farmers are; they are 95 per cent. Dutch, and hate Britain like poison. In the last 150 miles we have come we have met but two Englishmen. They tell of brutal treatment at the hands of the Dutch, of how Boers from the Transvaal and Free State have for years come into the Colony at intervals and made raids. There used to be English here, but, robbed and raided, they have appealed to the Government in vain, and, disgusted, with the way Britain has treated the Colony, they have left it. The few English farmers we have met out here, every single one, tell the same tale of Transvaal raids, of the brutality of the Dutchmen, and the extraordinary inactivity and shortsightedness of the British Government. They say the Cape Government is a pure farce. English settlers out here admire Sir A. Milner, and say he and Joe Chamberlain are the heroes of the hour. Hundreds of our own colonists are under arms now and trying to kill and have killed British soldiers, and yet they come and lay down their arms and are given back their farms with a slap on the back and a promise to be a good boy by order of Government." Englishmen here say this is suicidal and are all rabid with anger. I wish you were here to convey to England on your eloquent tongue the state of things in the Colony. This is a glorious spot, and our quarters standing above the banks of the river, rival Margate and Ramsgate; there is bathing in water (80 per cent. of mud), one boat, fishing ad lib. The major says he is going to give us a fish dinner to-night, and has prepared a fly from chicken feathers, but we don't countermand the rest of dinner all the same. Billiards, too, are another of our occupations between trench digging. Yesterday, the championship of the company was solved with a precious side of bacon to the winner. On Monday we played the Australians at cricket, but were defeated by 27 runs, our adversaries being more accustomed to sand and cocoanut matting than we from grassy Cheshire.
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